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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

Is the "Virgin Conception" True (and Can It Be Defended)?

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

ColdCaseChristianity.com

Christianity, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2016

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this blast from the past, J. Warner takes a thorough look at objections to the essential Christian claim that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born to the Virgin Mary. Is the "virgin conception" a ridiculous claim that defies reason and is unsupported by the history recorded in the New Testament and elsewhere?

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0:00.0

We're on a mission from God.

0:17.0

Maybe you should double your medication. I'll put that on my to-do list. Are you ready to examine what you believe?

0:25.0

Are you ready to examine what you believe?

0:29.4

Are ready to take a hard look at what you think is true.

0:41.0

Welcome to the Please Convince Me Podcast, the fastest growing apologetics podcast on the internet. Get ready to examine your faith and stretch your mind as we talk about the evidence

0:47.7

for God and the reasons why Christians believe what we believe. I'll be your host for the next 60 minutes. I'm a cold case

1:01.4

homicide detective, a seminary graduate, and a church planner, and my name is Jim Wallace. I'm warning you this is gonna screw up the natural order. Welcome back to the police convince me a podcast. My name is Jim Wallace.

1:28.0

We're celebrating the last week of school here in Southern California. We get ready to kind of launch off into summer. I hope

1:34.8

your summer is also a fun time for you and a chance for you to kind of reconnect with your family.

1:39.6

My two boys are back home from college and my girls are almost done with their experience in junior

1:46.2

high so it's been kind of an anxious and exciting time getting ready to have some down time,

1:52.2

a break, all the kind of spring sports are going to

1:54.4

come to a close and it's just a chance for everyone to kind of reconnect with a family.

1:58.0

I hope you're doing the same.

1:59.4

Well listen, we've been working on a project here, please convince me.

2:02.6

I was studying the nature of Jesus and some of the historicity of Jesus and the

2:07.8

deity of Jesus and just studying the kind of historical reliability of the documents related to Jesus and I hope you've had a

2:14.0

chance to kind of catch some of the earlier podcasts on this series.

2:17.9

We're really just getting ready to post an entire set of curriculum related to the nature

2:21.8

of Jesus on the Please Convince Me Academy page

2:25.0

but I wanted today to take a second to well not a second actually to launch off into a serious

2:30.6

discussion related to the Virgin conception of Jesus.

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